(2013-03-15) Dropbox Buys Mailbox

Drop Box has acquired Mail Box, the Mobile EMail app.

May23 update: interview with Mail Box founder Gentry Underwood. What eventually became discussions of acquisition actually began as discussions about integrating Dropbox into Mailbox. If you think about mail as attachments, there’s a relationship between those things, and there’s no good mobile mail client that let you attach things easily from Dropbox, and that was an interesting conversation to start down. What we found as we kept talking was that there was a lot of overlap in the “why,” the underlying mission of the organization, the reason people show up at work every day.

Nov'2015: Dropbox is closing down two of its high-profile consumer services, Mailbox and the Carousel photo storing offering.